by Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit:
The Vatican, the spiritual and administrative heart of the Catholic Church, faces an unprecedented financial crisis, with reports suggesting it is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
A combination of plummeting revenues, disillusioned donors, and mismanagement under Pope Francis has left the institution struggling to meet its pension obligations, Daily Express reported.
by Peter Breggin MD & Ginger Breggin, America Outloud:
Something incredible is going on, not just in the world of drones gone wild but in the minds of most Americans. Almost no one seems able to care enough to hide or stay at home, or to respond in any meaningful way to these bizarre threats to our security.1 Nor do they feel overwhelmed by this latest seeming catastrophe. Have we all become too apathetic or numb to respond anymore?
by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
President Joe Biden’s list of last-minute pardons and sentence commutations is less interesting for what it doesn’t say than what it does.
While the list at the White House website shows details on more than three dozen of those whom he pardoned, it is silent on the rest of the almost 1,500 whose sentences he commuted.
And for a reason.
by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
Why is demand at food banks all over the country higher than it has ever been before? The media keeps insisting that economic conditions are just fine, but it has become quite obvious to everyone that this is not true. In particular, the rising cost of living has been absolutely crushing households from coast to coast. In the old days, most of the people that would show up at food banks were unemployed. But now food banks are serving large numbers of people that actually do have jobs but that don’t make enough to pay for all of the basics. The ranks of the “working poor” are growing very rapidly, and this is creating an unprecedented crisis all over America.
While watching @SenWarren claim @RobertKennedyJr will bring back polio, keep in mind that every single case of polio here in the last 50 years came from a vaccine. https://t.co/SVinOyi2Ea
— A Midwestern Doctor (@MidwesternDoc) December 17, 2024
by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
The United Nations has ordered world leaders to begin arresting citizens who share content on social media sites that challenges the official narrative.
World leaders all signed a new UN ‘Cascais Declaration’ which makes it a criminal offence to spread non-mainstream content online.
Naturalnews.com reports: Guterres accused “unchecked digital platforms and AI” of allowing “hate speech to proliferate like never before.” He also denounced “misinformation and deepfakes” in the same context.
by Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit:
The Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released a second report on the events surrounding January 6 as well his investigation into the weaponized J6 Committee on Tuesday.
“This interim report reveals that there was not just one single cause for what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6; but it was a series of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at several levels and numerous entities,” Loudermilk said.
from RT:
Igor Kirillov spent years investigating incidents involving chemical and biological weapons
Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who, along with his assistant, was killed on Tuesday in a Moscow assassination allegedly carried out by Ukraine, was the Russian military’s top official on the hazards posed by weapons of mass destruction.
Kirillov commanded the military branch responsible for protecting troops and civilians from chemical and biological weapons, and from the radioactive fallout of a nuclear strike or ‘dirty bomb’ attack. He was also in charge of military investigations into numerous high-profile cases directly and indirectly involving Russia.
by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche Organization:
As the curtain comes down on one tragedy, there is perhaps an even worse tragedy preparing to take the stage. Friedrich Merz, the leading contender to replace Scholz as Chancellor, is a self-proclaimed “Trans-Atlanticist”, a supporter of NATO and the EU, a super war hawk — and the former chair of the supervisory board of BlackRock Germany. He is also an “economic liberal”, a supporter of free trade, which favors the global corporate establishment. With the German economy being de-industrialized, how will he deal with the budget? Austerity — except for continuing to fund the war in Ukraine.
from Your News:
The proposed legislation calls for replacing the Electoral College with a direct popular vote to elect U.S. presidents, sparking intense constitutional debate.
By yourNEWS Media Newsroom
A group of Senate Democrats introduced a bill on Monday aimed at abolishing the Electoral College, reigniting a contentious debate about the system that determines presidential elections. Advocates of the bill argue that the Electoral College undermines democratic principles by giving disproportionate influence to certain states, while opponents view the move as an attack on the U.S. Constitution and the federalist framework.
from RAIR Foundation:
A chilling and undeniable truth is emerging—one we at RAIR Foundation have meticulously documented for months. Across every crisis we face—whether it’s mass immigration, public health devastation, or the systematic erosion of our cultures and safety—a single thread connects them all: these are not failures of policy. They are deliberate attacks calculated to achieve their intended effects.
